Synopsis: Artemis Fowl returns. This time he helps the fairies fight a goblin revolution in exchange for help recovering his kidnapped father.
This is an enjoyable book. It's not as good as the first book of the series. In fact, a lot of its enjoyability may come from the afterglow of book 1.
I think the major flaw this book has is placing Artemis Fowl into a heroic role. He's great as an evil genius, but as a hero he's required to fail regularly. That just makes him clumsy and sad albeit still a genius.
That's not say it's not worth reading. It has much of the same charm and some great moments, but it doesn't hold up as well as the first.
Oh, and on the previous subject of environmentalism and fairies...they have an interesting view of radiation.
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